Any good Australian movies?
Yes, not that one though.
almost all Aussie films revolve around war.
>>71179762
I liked it, posh English woman falls for the rugged Aussie cowboy...
Suggest me some pls
>>71179878
Odd since Aus hasn't been involved in THAT many wars
The Babadook and These Final Hours are pretty decent smaller films.
Owls of Gahoole is amazingly animated.
Too bad our film industry is rather small.
>>71179878
Almost all our movies are small-scale depressing dramas or outback horror films.
>>71180101
Why do we suck
Atleast there's Fury Road
Australia forgot it made Wake in Fright
What kind of country does that
>>71179963
Bad Boy Bubby is essential oz kino. For some more mainstream classics I would recommend:
>Gallipoli
>Chopper
>Flirting
>Two Hands
>The Castle
Other good shit includes but is not limited to:
>The Proposition
>Animal Kingdom
>Romper Stomper
>Loved Ones
Save those to your list, all are great and diverse in their genre, but most importantly, all are Australian. Let me know if you have a specific idea in mind as to what you're looking for content wise.
>>71179746
Romper Stomper.
>>71179746
aussie horror is generally a safe bet
>>71180213
What was that ned kelly comedy?
Young kelly? That and the one where he split the atom abd invented beer
>>71180213
Oh shit, I totally forgot my favourite - sorry for spamming your thread anon
>>71180172
I was gonna ask if anyone else had seen this. How would we even classify it? Weird Aussie psychodrama? Abstract horror film?
>"All the little devils are proud of hell"
>>71180247
Young Einstein
Reckless kelly
>>71180271
Larrikino
>>71180247
Young Einstein! And he loves his apples. A classic, but not sure if it's aged well.
I guess not mentioned in this thread so far that I've liked are Snowtown and The Rover.
Just watched Snowtown
Really good, but such a depressing film
>>71180247
young einstein.
>>71180322
seconding this
>>71180290
You spend the whole film waiting for the Yabba guys to turn on him Deliverance-style and it never happens. The only enemy chasing him is himself.
Also, kangeroo massacre.
>>71179963
Funny cos i grew up in oz and the teachers kept glorifying the anzacs in wwi.
This confused me a lot because wwi waa nowhere near australia
Beautiful Kate
In Her Skin
>>71180172
>>71180271
My english teacher made us watch this in year 12, I actually really enjoyed it given I'd never heard of it before.
>>71179746
Rescuers Down Under mate
>coming-of-age dramady with giallo flourishes
We made some interesting shit in the 70's.
>>71179746
All of the Mad Max films
>>71180372
It was our first war as a new nation, not that mysterious
>>71179746
Dog days
>>71180115
It's not Australian thank god
>On the Beach(2000)
>Gettin' Square
>Son of a Gun
LOVE SERENADE
Truly a hidden gem. much like the great Toni Collette.
Fuck you Australia. Why are you so supremely Aryan & shit.
Lantana
Some early Peter Weir.
>>71180630
Massively underrated film.
>>71180948
I've heard it's good stuff.
Just recently watched Gallipoli. A+.
Whatever that movie is where the kids get stranded in the outback and there's an aboo who dances himself to death sure was memorable when I saw it as a kid.
>>71181087
Thats Walkabout, which is australias best film
>>71181087
Walkabout
>>71180600
Still, my 11 year old self couldnt understand why australians would glorify such a tragic war in which young australians were sent to their deaths for nothing.
I couldbt relate to why people would be proud of that
Priscilla queen of the desert.
Are there any other faggot/drag core films out of aussie?
Rolf ''Ten Canoes'' De Heer's artsy edgelord phase spawned this hidden gem.
>>71181200
>>71181164
I've never met an Australian who didn't treat it the same as everyone else treats their country-men lost during WWI. There's glorification of the people lost, but not the war.
>>71180372
They're hardly gonna glorify the wars against the aborigines, are they? Or the Boer war after the Break Morant business.
>>71180115
>Why do we suck
Everyone with talent leaves.
>>71181164
It was never about glory, it's about remembering those we lost. It's also about distrusting the Brits when they send us on impossible missions in their name.
It's also about having crack and getting around your mates faggot. We even respected the turks by playing soccer with them, basically tying in with our egalitarianism bordering on nihilism.
>>71179746
As in filmed in Australia or created by an Australia director?
In any case
The Castle
Mad Max Trilogy
The Piano
The Road (if going by Australian director)
desu most the movies filmed here are shit AAA mega blockbusters that are filmed on the Gold Coast because it's cheap as fuck and the government is so desperate for the entertainment industry to come here they literally pay them to film here.
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Remember this shit? Guilty pleasure for me, desu.
aussies do apocalyptic well
>>71181269
>there was movement at the station, for word had passed around that the colt from old regret had got away, and had joined the wild bush horses...
>>71181947
Just how bad was this?
>>71181981
Their country is an eternal apocalypse.
>>71179746
Van Diemen's Land.
Not as good as Gallipoli but still pretty bloody good.
The Rover was alright
>>71181682
>It's also about distrusting the Brits when they send us on impossible missions in their name.
You're colonial troops. It's your fucking job to die for the motherland and her empire so suck it up.
>>71182018
fookin noice
my old neighbour Mrs. Bickley would recite the whole thing every christmas
>>71182106
There's another film coming out next year about Tasmanian convicts, by the director of the Babadook. Looking forward to it desu, if only because I'm one of the few Australians who is fascinated by the colonial era
Based Mendelsohn.
Babe and Babe: Big City Rumble Times are actual masterpieces
>>71180213
Seconding Gallipoli, chopper, and romper stomper.
I raise you young einstein.
>>71182107
>Every Aussie war film is just about thousands of them running into machine guns and dying because British officers told them to
Being an ANZAC would've been suffering.
>>71182323
>Babe is australian
Well fuck me. For some reason I've gone all this time thinking it was a brit movie, or at least taking place in britain.
>>71180322
Snowtown is hardcore depressing and brutal. Good film!
>>71182397
Lol was just about to post this. Poor ANZAC.
>>71182323
>Big City Rumble Times
What?
>>71182402
It's literally directed by george miller of mad max fame
>>71179963
>Odd since Aus hasn't been involved in THAT many wars
Nigga Australia has been at war more often than it hasn't since it's existed.
>>71180948
Film only for absolute madmen!
Also this is how I picture australians.
>>71182491
The second one was. He just wrote and produced the first one.
>>71182402
It was filmed in Australia but I'm pretty sure the film is supposed to be set in England. I mean the book it's based off of takes place in England and I remember it being England when I watched it as a kid.
>>71182562
Oh right. I had in my mind he did the first but not the second.
>>71182397
Pretty much every WWI movie is about grunts running into machine guns because British officers told them to.
>>71182614
>That one short on Youtube about the British soldier getting shellshock/PTSD and getting put in front of a firing squad for being a traitor/coward
LONG LIVE THE QUEEN
>>71182204
Struggling to think of a bad performance from him. Even early low-key stuff like pic related and The Big Steal he's great.
>>71182672
So a shitty paths of glory?
>>71182689
He's a very passed-over actor, it seems. He's been working in the business for around 30 years and it's only around the time of Animal Kingdom that everyone seemed to take notice.
>>71182553
there is a car very similar to that in the canberra museum. name escapes me, belonged to a tinker with a very smooth tongue.
deserves his own movie desu
>>71182553
In small towns, especially hill country, some still kind of are.
The GOAT
> inb4 contrarian fags who think the original is better
>>71184242
The sequel is more enjoyable than the first but the original has a certain quality to it. Humongous doesn't creep me out the same way Toecutter does.
Body Melt
idk it could be NZ but i'm pretty sure it's aussie
>>71181682
>>71181450
maybe, but my teachers kept talking about how anzacs built australia, saved australia etc, and kept going on about how brave they were to run into enemy fire and die etc.
i mean yes it was brave and tragic but this literally is one of the big things that define australian identity, but historically its a footnote.
i mean if you want to talk about sacrifice talk about aussie soldiers and pows in new guinea in ww2
>>71184320
We were newly federated and Gallipoli is what defined us as a nation.
>>71184320
Of course the first major war they fought is going to define them when that war is WWI.
quigly down under
>>71184296
I can't admit that the first one is without it's merits. Even though it was shoestring budgeted and a horribly paced second act I still watch it now and then. Mad Max 2 is the film Miller was trying to make but he just didn't have the budget.
However, they are both great examples of how Aussies make fucking about in the boonies an iconic piece of cinema.
This wasn't bad.
>>71185129
It was the first big international thing we were involved in after becoming an official country. Please stop pretending.
>>71185219
well i dont understand nationalism, so there we go
>>71180034
These final hours was pretty good. Depressing as hell, but good.
>>71185380
Yeah, you don't understand nationalism because you haven't experienced the place you were born in gaining nation-status, and immediately getting thrown into a futile world war, and you're too autistic to be able to put yourself in the place of people who did see that happen.
What kind of things do you think makes sense for defining a nation through the impact it had on its populace?
Mini-series not a movie but if you're a paddle-steamer fan it's pretty GOAT.
>>71186316
An erotic journey from alice springs to Tasmania
>>71186428
heh
>>71185611
nationalism is a mostly a myth, so i suppose defining a nation means spinning tales.
I mean can you explain why a war would cement nationalism other than "muh feelings"?
>>71179746
I can't be the only one who grew up watching this film.
